Re: Daylight Saving Time, I would most like
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It's really dumb once you understand the purpose (Score:5, Informative)
The reason for it nowadays basically amounts to this: If it's light out when most people get home from work, they're more likely to go shopping.
Re:End it or make it year-round (Score:4, Informative)
9-5, 8-4, whatever.
When I was at Boeing, my boss let me work 6 to 2:30 (lunch break was on my own time). Then, I got a new boss. He literally could not figure out that I wasn't skipping out early. Must have failed "big hand, little hand" in elementary school.
This sort of mental midget was one reason I left. And now one reason Chicago HQ is moving engineering out of Seattle.
Re:It's really dumb once you understand the purpos (Score:4, Informative)
So do it year-'round.
In one fell swoop: all the hassles, the confusion, the circadian disruption, the traffic hazards, and the annoying small-talk related to the twice-a-year time changes go away.
Re:Noon (Score:4, Informative)
Set it so that noon is when the sun is at it's apex and be done with it.
That would require daily adjustments to practically every clock on the planet. The Earth's orbit isn't a perfect circle, so Noon tomorrow isn't 24hrs from Noon today. In fact, apparent solar time (what a sundial would show) can differ from mean solar time (keeping Noon times exactly 24 hrs apart) by as much as sixteen and a half minutes. Perhaps you've seen that lopsided figure eight that they print on globes? It's called an analemma [wikipedia.org] and it shows how much we'd have to adjust the clocks each day if we followed your scheme.
Re:End it or make it year-round (Score:5, Informative)
As it is, during the winter there is a period where I leave for work while it's dark and return home afterward in the dark. To have at least a little daylight left at the end of my workday would be nice.
Move further from the poles...daylight duration varies with the longitude, most of all.
Re:It's really dumb once you understand the purpos (Score:4, Informative)
Completely wrong. There's a very excellent reason to use noon. From noon to noon is always 24 hours, no matter what time of year it is. From dawn to dawn is *not* always 24 hours. From sunset to sunset is *not* always 24 hours. It varies throughout the year. This makes anything other than noon completely unsuitable as a set-point.
Not "Insightful". He's completely correct as he states what times would be "sunset at" or "dawn at", as you use "noon" for 12:00 PM he used 7:00 PM and 7:00 AM respectively. Although, he did mix conventions; dawn and dusk, sunrise and sunset.
Re:It's really dumb once you understand the purpos (Score:5, Informative)
From noon to noon is always 24 hours, no matter what time of year it is.
Sorry, but the Earth's orbit isn't a circle, and that means that the noon-to-noon time actually does vary day by day over the year; by as much as 16+ minutes.